On Sat, Dec 28, 2002 at 12:39:30PM -0800, Jay Schaffer wrote:
> The only remaining item is to get the RedHat Linux box to recognize my
> Windows NT file server which is speaking both TCP/IP and AppleTalk. I
> just need to get the TCP/IP recognition from the Linux box working--I
> don't really need to get to the file server's Macintosh volume. The
> box is recognizing my network for internet connections, but I just
> don't know how to see the file server.
>
What you want to do involves samba. Samba is a package that allows
intercommunication between Windows file shares and unix systems.
In a perfect world all you should need to do to access a windows machine
is something like this (as root):
mount -t smb //myntserver/someshare /mnt/ntshare
Where,
myntserver = the name of your NT server within the domain or
workgroup
someshare = the name of a share that is availible from that server
/mnt/ntshare = is some arbitrary (and empty) directory that you've
made on your linux system. This directory is where
you access the files from the server.
Sharing files from Linux -> NT is a little more involved. Mostly all it
takes is setting some values in the /etc/smb.conf file, and starting the
Samba service.
Some documentation to help:
http://us1.samba.org/samba/docs/Samba-HOWTO-Collection.html
Red Hat 8.0 has a new version of samba packaged with it so you shouldn't
need to build anything, but you will most likely need to tweak on the
configuration files.
You might want to check the linux machine's firewall configuration since
that is a common thing to have get in the way:
http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/linux/RHL-8.0-Manual/custom-guide/ch-basic-firewall.html
HTH
--
Sam Phillips <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.dasbistro.com
Reno Nevada
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